My wild journey through 50 books in 2018

Paul Kamau
4 min readJan 14, 2019
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Of all my goals and resolutions from 2018, few turned out as satisfying as my 2018 reading goals. Back in 2017, I only read 13 books and going into 2018, I made plans to read more of what I wanted, as fast I wanted.

In 2018 I was finally able to develop a technique for reading that allowed me to dive deeper into my love for history, technology, theology and biographies of many inspirational people in history.

Here’s the list:

Favorites

20. Crown of Blood(The deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey) by Nicola Tallis
9. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
14. The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith by Jeffrey D Johnson
12. The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
21. John Wycliffe: A Light Shining in a Dark Place by Gary J Hall
41. How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy by Bruce Sinclair

History

1 The 15 decisive battles of the World by Sir Edward Creasey
2. History of Russia and the Russian People: From Ancient Times to the Present by Constantine
3. Byzantine Empire: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History
4. African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States by Captivating History
5. Ancient Civilizations: A Captivating Guide to Mayan History, the Aztecs, and Inca Empire by Captivating History
6. History of Religion: An Overview of the most Important People and Events in: The World’s Religions, Mythologies, & History of the Church (Christianity, … Buddhism, Jewish History, Hinduism Book 1) by Michael J. Stewart
7. World History: Ancient History, United States History, European, Native American, Russian, Chinese, Asian, African, Indian and Australian History, Wars including World War 1 and 2 [3rd Edition] by Adam Brown
8. Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Greek Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, Norse Mythology, Celtic Mythology and Roman Mythology by Captivating History
9. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
10. Kenya: Looters and Grabbers: 54 Years of Corruption and Plunder by the Elite, 1963–2017 by Joe Khamisi
11. The Republic by Plato
12. The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
13. The Strange Death of Moral Britain by Christie Davies

Apologetics

14. The Absurdity of Unbelief: A Worldview Apologetic of the Christian Faith by Jeffrey D Johnson
15. Evolution: The Lie by Ken Ham

Biographies

16. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
17. Enemy of the State by Tommy Robinson
18. Not Yet Uhuru by Oginga Odinga
19. Nine Day Queen of England (Lady Jane Grey) by Faith Cook
20. Crown of Blood(The deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey) by Nicola Tallis
21. John Wycliffe: A Light Shining in a Dark Place by Gary J Hall
22. John Wycliffe: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
23. Fan into Flame by John Gatu
24. Isaac Newton: Secrets of the Universe (The True Story of Isaac Newton) (Historical Biographies of Famous People) by Alexander Kennedy
25. Galileo Galilei: A life from beginning to End by Hourly history
26. Tsar Nicholas: A life from beginning to End by Hourly history
27. Benjamin Franklin: The American Dream (The True Story of Benjamin Franklin) by Alexander Kennedy
28. Grace Kelly by Hourly History
29. Nostradamus: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
30. Alexander the Great: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
31. Cleopatra: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
32. Nikola Tesla by Captivating History
33. Suleiman the Magnificent: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
34. Darwin: by Alexander Kennedy
35. The Young Man’s guide and journey from life to immortality by John Angell James

Culture

36. Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood by Derek Hunter
37. The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
38. Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation by Lauren Southern
39. Chess for Beginners: Know the Rules, Choose Your Strategy, and Start Winning by Yelizaveta Orlova

Technology

40. Artificial intelligence and machine learning for business by Steven Finlay
41. How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy by Bruce Sinclair
42. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
43. AWS Zero to Hero by Netshock Technology
44. AWS Security Best Practices (AWS Whitepaper) by Amazon Web Services
45. An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS Whitepaper) by Amazon Web Services
46. Architecting for the AWS Cloud: Best Practices (AWS Whitepaper) by Amazon Web Services
47. Security Solutions for AWS: Understanding Network Security and Performance Monitoring for Amazon Web Services (Argent Software Simply Safe Book 1) by Argent University
48. Overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS Whitepaper) by Amazon Web Services
49. Artificial intelligence by John Gabriel
50. The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross

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Paul Kamau

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